Anglo-Saxon queried:
>> LOLOL. How the hell did you come across THAT?
There really was not anything incredible done in finding this clip. That Robert Loggia Minute Maid ad left an impression on me when I first saw it in the 1990s; therefore, all I had to do at YouTube was key in <"Robert Loggia" + "orange juice"> and ... voila!
At the time (1998), "The (Newark NJ) Star-Ledger" had two full-time TV writers, viz. Matt Soller Zeitz and Alan Sepinwall, who actually devoted an entire column about the anomaly of placing Mr. Loggia in an orange juice commercial and the unlikely event that an 8-year old would idolize him.
I wrote to them and mentioned that the Loggia/Minute Maid tableau was not the first time a beverage ompany used an unlikely celebrity and inordinately over-fascinated kids in a bid to sell orange juice.
Recounting a commercial from circa 1974-75, I informed them about an ad for Tropicana in which three or four kids are seated at a picnic table with a carton of Tropicana prominently displayed. Who then should happen along singing a simplistic jingle "You haven't tried real orange juice before 'til you've tried Tropicana" (the same song NYC TV kiddie show host Sandy Becker used to sing when he had the gig hawking the product)? Why, none other than Eddie Albert! One 10-year old excitedly exclaims, "Hey, it's Eddie Albert"; another kid inquires "How's Arnold the pig?" to which Mr. Albert responds "Oh, he's fine. I'll tell him you asked." At that point, Albert and the kids launch into a typical sales pitch about vitamins and nutrients - not unlike Loggia selling the kid on the merits of the product in question.
Like I wrote to Messrs. Zeitz and Sepinwall at the time, I posited that "Green Acres" had been off-network for about four years at that point and how it wasn't really setting any fires in syndication. I further wondered about the unlikeliness that a bunch of pre-pubescents would be enamored of Eddie Albert